Raised for His Glory

Theology and Politics from a Conservative, Biblical Perspective

In 2011, I published a book titled, Raised for His Glory.[1] I did so because of the rise of Dominionism, Kingdom Now and Replacement Theology, which was gaining support. In all these versions, the Church replaces Israel and the belief is that God is completely done with Israel. Many of those within these camps do not necessarily believe in a literal 1,000 year reign of Jesus (The Millennial Kingdom), after His physical return to this earth. In fact, some do not believe Jesus will physically return to this earth but that He is reigning now. These people do not understand why Jesus must return physically to this earth. Satan knows and has deceived them.

The biblical truth appears to be that Jesus will return as repeatedly stated or implied throughout God’s Word. The only way a person cannot arrive to that conclusion is when he or she allegorizes Scripture. In that case, another meaning is applied to the biblical text, one that distances itself from the seeming direction of Scripture.

Normally, this type of “exegesis” is only done with prophetic discourse in the Bible, which should be a clue as to what’s actually going on. Some folks read Scripture and when it goes into prophecy, due to the imagery presented, take an other than literal meaning from Scripture. By that, I mean they believe the often cryptic nature of prophecy in Scripture means they should look for hidden meanings. Too often though, those folks seem to randomly apply a meaning based on what they think rather than what is actually being presented.

For instance, I recall reading one commentator who believes that God is completely finished with Israel and all promises have been transferred to the Church. He pointed to the book of Joshua as his proof. He cited one passage from Joshua that seemed to indicate that Israel had gotten all the land and there was “rest” for Israel. He understood that to mean that God’s promises had been fulfilled.

The problem is that Israel taking all of the Land God was giving them was not done overnight. It was a process that took many years. In fact, some passages in the book of Joshua on one hand seems to indicate Israel took all the Land allotted to her, while other passages seem to negate that.

If we read through the entire book of Joshua, it seems to become obvious that Israel warred against factions, overtook them (for the most part), and then rested…for a while. Eventually, more fighting would occur with Israel gaining more land. Deuteronomy 7:22 makes the following statement.

The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be able to destroy them all at once; otherwise, the wild animals will become too numerous for you. (HCSB).

This did not happen all at once and there is a great reason for that. Exodus 23:29 makes a very important point. There, God explains why He would not drive out the nations all at once.

I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

So the book of Joshua spends time over many years when we see Israel gaining more land, then resting. Then gaining more land, then resting. There were also times when Israel gained no land because of her sin and lost battles.

If we consider Genesis 17:8, we learn what God intended for Israel.

8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God (emphasis added).

This was not fulfilled in either Solomon’s or Joshua’s day. It has not been completely fulfilled even in our day. Yet, Israel came back from the dead (Ezekiel 37:1-14), in 1948 after not having been a nation for many years. Beyond this, the Hebrew language had been dead, but was also resurrected.

Here again is another example of people reading into Scripture (eisegesis). People read Ezekiel 37 Valley of Dry Bones passage and apply that to the Church. This is poor exegesis that literally changes the meaning of the text. When God revealed these things to Ezekiel the prophet, what was God’s intended meaning?

Seems clear enough that He was speaking only of Israel. Look at Ezekiel 37:11-14 (NKJV).

Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’”

How much more clear could God be? God Himself says the bones represent the people of Israel, not the Church. Then He says He will bring the Israelites “back to the land of Israel.” However, people will allegorize this to mean the Church, when it does not mean that.

As far as Raised for His Glory, I present a good amount of detail about Israel’s history and what God has stated related to Israel along with actually promised to do with that nation. Here is the table of contents.

• Chapter 1:   For the Sake of His Name
• Chapter 2:   Resurrection of Israel
• Chapter 3:   Beyond the Valley of the Bones
• Chapter 4:   The Northern Invasion
• Chapter 5:   Gog Knows
• Chapter 6:   Gog Pays the Price
• Chapter 7:   The Aftermath
• Chapter 8:   God Desires Restoration
• Chapter 9:   Will Israel Rise Again?
• Chapter 10: Attacks on Scripture
• Chapter 11: The Spiritual Jew
• Chapter 12: Replacement?
• Chapter 13: God’s Promises Will Prevail
• Chapter 14: What About You?

Readers may disagree with some of my conclusions, but it is my belief that especially in today’s situation, it is extremely important to know not only what God has stated about His plans for Israel, but what He actually means by what He has stated. We need to be extremely careful when we read and study His Word because the words we read in Scripture are from God’s mouth. We have no right to change meaning because we like our meaning better.

It is quite difficult to keep up with what is happening in the Middle East and much of it involves Israel. While I’m aware that many to most believe Israel is the aggressor in all situations and unconcerned about “innocent” lives, it seems to me that Israel has gone overboard to warn citizens of Gaza that they should find safer ground because of upcoming military maneuvers. Who does that? In fact, Hamas at every turn has used schools and even homes to hide themselves in. Israel continues to find underground tunnel entrances in children’s bedrooms inside homes.

As you may know, Israel just rescued four living Jewish hostages from Gaza. It was a very well planned, highly coordinated rescue. As IDF approached buildings where the hostages were imprisoned, they encountered roughly 100 terrorists. About 50 of them fled and the rest engaged IDF forces and were killed (according to Amir Tsarfati, a Jewish Christian prophecy teacher who lives in Israel).

When the IDF forces got to the hostages, they killed what people are saying were “innocent” civilians, but it turns out these innocent civilians were actually working for Hamas and/or Hezbollah as terrorists. CNN and others reported the incident as Israel murdering innocent victims. One source – Dr. Eli David (in a tweet pictured above) – even stated the two people had been “murdered” in the maneuver. Then he went onto say that their “only crime was holding Israeli hostages in their home.”

Um…that actually is a crime. If I did that – held kidnapped hostages secretly in my home – I would be guilty of an accessory to kidnapping. What Eli David has stated is pretty ridiculous implying that the men were doing something humanitarian. The men were ensuring those four hostages were kept literally in a home prison!

Israel IDF forces have discovered, uncovered and destroyed miles of secret tunnels from Gaza to Egypt. Of course, Egypt denies they even knew about them. Uh…sure.

Beyond this, numerous other tunnels have been discovered that had bedrooms, full baths, living rooms and millions of dollars in cash and weaponry. At least some of these were found directly under UNRWA buildings. Of course, the UNRWA officials deny any knowledge of them existing but Israel has given UNRWA a short window to get out of their buildings in Israel and destroy what they had there.

I also hear Biden is finally working on trying to get the American hostages released but it’s part of a deal with Hamas that Israel will likely not accept. The problem is that Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organizations and need to be eradicated, not catered to. If you had people constantly trying to break into your home to harm you or take what they wanted, I would think you would try to do something about that and the law would be on your side.

Beyond everything that’s going on in the Middle East with respect to Israel, there is so much more. It will take another article or two to lay it out. I’ll try to do that but suffice it to say that Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman isn’t renewing a security agreement with the US that expired a few days ago. This means he is under no obligation to continue to use only the US dollar for purchase of oil. He can now contract directly with other nations and accept their own currency as payment. This is another nail in the coffin of the dollar.

The war between Ukraine and Russia continues heating up. Prior to Zelensky, there was a signed deal on the table between Ukraine and Russia. When Zelensky was installed as president of Ukraine, he essentially scrapped that agreement. He then was publicly invited to join NATO by Kamala Harris even though Putin/Russia had not been invited to join.

Putin was also trying to protect Russian people in the Donbass area because of their ill treatment by Ukrainians. Because of all this, war began between Ukraine and Russia began. It will likely get to the point of nuclear armaments because of the use of US weapons used by Ukraine to attack targets deep inside Russia. Ukraine soldiers are not trained enough to deploy those weapons, which means US military people are the ones who are behind the attacks. Putin knows this and has warned the US that it will not be let go.

I will have more in the next article. Things are going seemingly out of control deliberately, not only with respect to Middle East but in other parts of Europe as well. In the background, we have many EU/European governments literally being overthrown via voting.

Things are changing at a breakneck pace, but what will globalists do as it appears they are losing control of the situation? They will be forced to push for global conflicts to an even greater degree to hide their panic.

Remember, like the C0V pandemic and the jab, all of these things are based solely on lies. The WHO is proving it now with their assertion that the man in Mexico who recently died, died of bird flu. Health authorities in Mexico are calling that out and denying it. The man was not around birds at all. He had many underlying serious health issues and died from those. The WHO is trying to do the same thing now with bird flu that they did with C0V, all based on lies, lies and more lies.

Buckle up everyone. The ride will certainly get bumpy. See you next time!

[1] Purchase Raised for His Glory on Amazon

Theology and Politics from a Conservative, Biblical Perspective